Photo: Allentown Art Museum,
Purchase: Gift of Paul K. Kania, 2019. (2019.19.1.4)
El cometa
Date: 1963
Medium: Etching
Dimensions (cm.): 14.3 x 10.6 (platemark)
Alternate titles: Unknown
Published edition:
Plate 4 of the portfolio Diez aguafuertes, published 1964 in a signed edition of 20 on ivory wove. The portfolio contains 10 of Mendez's illustrations for A la orilla de este rio. Sheet dimensions of impressions in the edition are 33.0 x 25.0 cm. Impressions from the edition are signed in graphite, lower right, numbered in graphite, lower left.
Unknown number of impressions outside the edition.
Contemporary publication: Manuel Maples Arce, A la orilla de este rio (Madrid: Editorial Plenitud, 1964), p. 83
References: Information to be added
Selected additional references (illustrated): Maples Arce 1970, pl. 78.
Cataloging note: This etching was one of 32 illustrations commissioned for Maples Arce's memoir. This image preceded chapter 5.
Catalogue record number: 18